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1:72 Scale | Length | Width | ||
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North American T-6 Texan | 5" | 7" |
After the UK and Canada the South African Air Force (SAAF) was the largest user of the Harvard. Also the SAAF used these aircraft longer than any other country. Harvard 7072 belongs to the Air Force Museum and has been made airworthy and painted with the 1950s scheme. This aircraft started life in North American’s Dallas plant on April 10 1941. Built as AT-6C-1-NT for USAAF as c/n 88-9868, serial 41-33308, re-allocated to RAF as a Harvard MkIIA EX335. On November 2, 1942 the aircraft arrived in Cape Town South Africa for use with the SAAF as part of the Joint Air Training Scheme (JATS). It was assigned the registration 7072. It flew for 2 months and went into storage for almost 29 months. In April 1948 the aircraft was re-activated until its military retirement in 1995 and finally in 1996 it went to the Air Force Museum. 7072 and a few other SAAF Harvards are used in memorial fly pasts to commemorate such events as the Battle of Britain. 7072 stands out from the other Harvards because of its mid-1950’s paint scheme.
Designed as a low wing advanced military trainer, the T6 was first flown was first flown in April 1935.
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